Instagram

On our instagram we have started posting pictures of us editing and introduced the group. We have added multiple hash tags to each so we are easily findable to any who supports PCD or are interested in our work. From instagram you can also upload pictures straight to twitter also so we can keep all out social media platforms well updated.

screenshot from instagram

Digipak Experimenting

For the front cover of our digipak we have been experimenting with cutting out the girls in the picture and putting us on a different more effective background. We also plan t experiment with black and white and silhouettes. 

Here is our first try and cutting round the girls using Adobe Photoshop. 

experimenting 

TD - Our Viral Vid Concept

Our viral vid idea is to use the basic dance and choreography we have created and get others to send us there clips of the dance or something similar to the chorus of the song when i grow up. Our idea also is to have people laying the track via musical instruments or singing.

We decided it doesn't have to be exactly the same but the idea of people to send in their own dance or something similar to it. We used creative arts evening to experiment this where we invited people to learn a small part of the choreography from our performance footage in our video. This was basic and very easy to learn. This also proved very successful as we got a lot of people and teachers involved.

Cast Feedback

After our shoot with the younger PCD we asked them about how we found the shoot and working with us on the video. We got positive feedback and they all enjoyed working with us and are excited to see the final result.

TD - Artist Profile in 2013

Nicole 2013

The girl band have broken up now however they have all become successful within the music and tv industry. Nicole Shertzinger left and launched her own career in the music industry as a solo artist . Today she is very successful. She has 19 singles and 2 albums as a solo artist. She has also had number ones in UK , US and Ireland. She is most Famous for her Single 'dont hold you breath'.she has also featured in a number of other songs such as heart beat and missing you.
After the disbandment of The Pussycat Dolls in 2010, Scherzinger collaborated withEnrique Iglesias on "Heartbeat" which became a moderate hit worldwide. It was later included on her debut studio album, Killer Love (2011), which produced five singles, including top-ten hits "Poison", "Don't Hold Your Breath" and "Right There". "Try With Me" became Scherzinger's tenth top twenty single on the UK Singles Chart, entering at number eighteen in 2011,^[whereas "Don't Hold Your Breath" was launched at the top of the same chart, becoming Scherzinger's longest running single at the pole position of that chart.

ashley roberts 2013

Another band member today is Ashley Roberts. Who is mainly famous for becoming runner up on popular reality tv series im a celebrity in the year of 2012. This fairly recent. After her success she has then gone on to present on several tv shows including this morning. She also has started her own brands within makeup as well as modelling for loreal and more. She left the pussycat dolls wanting to pursue her own career in dancing and singing but in 2010 she later joined reality tv series Dancing on ice where she judged on the panel for 2 years.

Melody Thornton 2013

Melody Thornton left when the band broke up to become a solo artist. She was second to lead vocalist alongside nicole.As of 2010, Thornton has departed from the group to focus on her solo career. Thornton's first mixtape, P.O.Y.B.L was released March 15, 2012. Thornton is currently working on her debut solo album. She has featured in songs with timberland and backing in the song bullet proof. She has also been in the top 40 charts in both new zealand and australia. She currently has picked up a film career in step up films as a dancer and in popstar to opera star. She is currently working on her new solo album.

Jessica Lynn Sutta  is an American singer, dancer, song writer and actress. She is best known as a member of the American pop girl group and dance ensemble, the Pussycat Dolls. She left the group in January 2010 to embark her solo career. Sutta's debut single, Show Me, reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Charts in the United States. She is currently finishing her debut solo album Sutta Pop which is expected to be released in 2013.She has had a successful career and had many dance number ones in uk and the us.

Kimberly Kaye Wyatt is an American singer, dancer, choreographer and television personality. She is best known as a former member of the American pop/R&Bgirl group and dance ensemble the Pussycat Dolls. She joined the Pussycat Dolls in 2003 and left the group in 2010. She started a new band Her Majesty & The Wolves in 2010. She has had a successful career and had many singles within the top 40 also many other songs she is featured in such as candy. More recently she is a judge on got to dance tv show.

Carmit Bachar is an American singer, dancer,model, actress and showgirl. She was a member of the successful pop/R&B group, thePussycat Dolls and one of the main vocalists of the group.Bachar left the group in February 2008.She is currently a member of electro/pop duo called LadyStation. she has appeared as dancers in several music videos including michael jackson.  She most recently has a career in song writing which has worked well for her. as well as this she has also toured with beyonce as a backing dancer.


Today the girls are still friends and have made appearances together. There has also been talk about them getting back together. The pussycat dolls Reborn. is a band that have been around for ages they have been popular in america but we have not heard alot about them in england. There however is talk about them never been as good as the pussycat dolls such as having the same name as them and same looks.

TD - Lyrics and Background

Lyrics 

Boys call you sexy
And you don't care what they say
See, every time you turn around
They screaming your name

Boys call you sexy
And you don't care what they say
See, every time you turn around
They screaming your name

Now I've got a confession
When I was young I wanted attention
And I promised myself that I'd do anything
Anything at all for them to notice me

But I ain't complaining
We all wanna be famous
So go ahead and say what you wanna say

You don't know what it's like to be nameless
Want them to know what your name is
'Cause see when I was younger I would say

When I grow up, I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies
When I grow up, I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies

When I grow up, be on TV
People know me, be on magazines
When I grow up, fresh and clean
Number one chick when I step out on the scene

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

They used to tell me I was silly
Until I popped up on the TV
I always wanted to be a superstar
And knew that singing songs would get me this far

But I ain't complaining
We all wanna be famous
So go ahead and say what you wanna say

You don't know what it's like to be nameless
Want them to know what your name is
'Cause see, when I was younger I would say

When I grow up, I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies
When I grow up, I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies

When I grow up, be on TV
People know me, be on magazines
When I grow up, fresh and clean
Number one chick when I step out on the scene

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

I see them staring at me
Ooh I'm a trendsetter
Yes this is true 'cause what I do
No one can do it better

You can talk about me
'Cause I'm a hot topic
I see you watching me, watching me
And I know you want it

When I grow up, I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies
When I grow up, I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies

When I grow up, be on TV
People know me, be on magazines
When I grow up, fresh and clean
Number one chick when I step out on the scene

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

When I grow up, I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies
When I grow up, I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies
When I grow up, be on TV
People know me, be on magazines
When I grow up, fresh and clean
Number one chick when I step out on the scene
When I step out on the scene

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

But be careful what you wish for
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it
'Cause you just might get it

Background of the song  

"When I Grow Up" was one of several songs that were originally recorded by Scherzinger during the Her Name Is Nicole sessions, the others being "Happily Never After", "Who's Gonna Love You" and "I Hate This Part, that appears on Doll Domination Scherzinger cited that she felt as if the songs were more suited as a Pussycat Dolls song than her own."When I Grow Up" was written by Theron and Timothy Thomas, along with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, who also produced the song.

Target Audience: Example fact file/profile

Our primary target audience is 12-24 year old girls. Here is an example of a fact file/social media profile of our 'typical' primary target audience.

Why we chose these characteristics
14 is an age in the middle of our target audience so this is who is our direct targets. Even though The Pussycat Dolls are an American girl group we put this example as living in the UK as PCD are a world wide known band and Nicole Sherzinger is a judge on the UK X Factor. For interests we chose these two as they are stereotypically things that teenage girls enjoy doing and both are seen in our music video because of this and because it is so relatable to teenage girls. Her hobbies, dancing and singing, are written because they would be likely to be interested in these and music if they listen and follow the PCD. Their favourite TV shows are popular reality TV shows such as Xfactor (Nicole is a judge on) and I'm a celebrity get me out of here another member of the PCD was on last year. Their celebrity crush is James Arthur who was one of Nicole's acts on the Xfactor last year and is very current and popular with teenagers.

Our Production Company Name

The name for our production company is MKTP Productions.

We chose this name because it is simple and therefore easy for people to remember. It also sounds professional and is straight to the point. Since deciding the name we have been able to create a facebook, twitter and instagram for our company so we can easily be found on many social media platforms.

instagram logo

facebook

twitter

The links to all our social media is at the top of the blog.

MJ - Idea Update 3 - Choreography

On Thursday 28th,  Poppy showed and taught us the choreography for our music video. As it is fairly simple, we can also use some of the routine for our viral video idea.

Creative Arts Evening - Viral Video

On creative arts evening we plan to get footage of a range of people of all ages to perform a small section of our simple choreography. We will then use this in our viral video persuading people to send us their version of the dance to get the opportunity to win to be in the next pussycat dolls video.

MJ - MKTP Twitter

Recently we launched a new twitter account for our production group MKTP Productions. We follow all the Pussycat Dolls on twitter, as well as a few fan accounts. 

Casting: The younger PCD

Here are the girls we have cast to play the younger versions of the PCD in our video. We cast them through an audition process and they all seemed very eager and excited to be in the video. We thought this was very important as we want our cast to put full effort into acting and performance to make our video as effective as possible. 

Nisha 

Niamh

Izzy

Izzy

becky

TD - Goals Allowed

Yeovil Town may not be making a big impact in the Championship but they are joining forces with a record label to launch their own girl band in a bid to climb the pop charts and attract a new generation of supporters to the club.

They are bottom of English football's second tier but will be the first football club to have a girl group and the plan is for the band – to be based on the Pussycat Dolls – to perform at home matches for the rest of the 2013-14 season.

Auditions for females aged 18 and over will be held at Huish Park on 4 December and the successful girls, a lead singer and a group of south-west-based dancers, will work with the Famous Company to record a single that will be released on iTunes. The record will raise money for Prostate Cancer UK – the Football League's official charity.

Costumes for Narrative Section - Older PCDs

For the narrative section the older PCD will be wearing smart dresses and heels corresponding with their colour which they wear when they are younger. Here are pictures of each and who will be wearing them.

Jess - Purple

Millie - White

Poppy (me) - Pink

Abi - Blue

Tilly - Black/Red

MJ - Planning Update 1

On Wednesday 13th November we had a meeting with half of the cast of our music video. At lunchtime, we met with Becky Izzy A, Niamh,  Nisha, Izzy W, who are playing the parts of The Pussycat Dolls as young girls. During this meeting we talked about the production schedule, and we sorted out exactly what days and times the girls could film, and also sorted out what costumes and colours each girl will wear.
Jess Mitchell + Izzy W - PURPLE
Abi Birch + Becky - BLUE
Tilly Dennis + Niamh - RED
Millie James + Nisha - WHITE
Poppy Padgett + Izzy A - PINK

We came to the decision that we will hopefully be filming all the scenes with the younger girls on Friday 22nd at 3 - 5:30pm. We planned to film mainly at the charity shop, but also some shots in the streets of Ilkley. We made a list for each girl (what we need them to bring as their costume) and we made sure that each girl had a whole outfit that is suitable for their character. 

MJ - Idea Update 2

Our music video follows the Pussycat Dolls looking into their past, remembering how they wanted to be famous. There will also be some performance footage included throughout the video, with dancing & lip-syncing. There will be shots of the band as younger girls in various locations such as bedrooms, clothes shops/music shops, a bathroom, in a park & walking around town. We will also have shots of the band as they are now, in some of the same locations. We also see them getting out of a limo/black car onto a red carpet, and then looking back at their old rooms. The performance footage will be choreographed by Poppy, & the dance scenes will be filmed in an urban setting, with large spotlights behind the dancers, as this is commonly seen in Pussycat Dolls music videos.

Our music video summed up in one sentence - (Craig Mcneil said at the ASFF that usually a sign of a good music video is when it can be summed up in one sentence.)

"a girl-band reminisce about their lives and revisit their past, before they were famous"

ASFF: Aesthetica Short Film Festival

On the 8th of November we went to York to go ASFF. The official website describes ASFF as 'a celebration of independent film from across the world, and an outlet for championing and supporting short filmmaking'.

Beggars logo

Our primary reason for going to the festival was to listen to Craig McNeil talk about music videos and his work at the Beggars group. The beggars group is an independent British record company that owns or distributes several other labels, including 4AD, Rough Trade Records, Matador Records, and XL Recordings. The companies’ roots stem from the Beggars Banquet record shops, which first opened in 1973 with a shop in Earls Court,London. 




Craig McNeil talked about a variety of things related to music videos, all of which were very helpful, especially considering our music videos that are we are currently making. He talked about the history of promotional videos (music videos) and how artist used MTV and other channels to promote themselves instead of the typical 'top of the pops' method. He also spoke about what makes a good and bad music video. From this I took how important it is to be simple and original, and if it takes more than a sentence to describe your video idea it is probably too complicated. 

He spoke about influential videos such as Thriller and how a good music video can change an artists career. He continued to talk about the development of the music video and talked a lot about the how much YouTube has helped and what a great media platform it is. As we will be using YouTube as a method of feedback and promotion for our video this was good to hear. From YouTube things like lyric videos have been developed which also help to promote the artist. This is something we could consider doing as part of the promotional side of our video as well as the dance video we are thinking about. 

At the ASFF there are venues across the city showing screenings and talks. We went to the venue at White Stuff which was screening music videos. From watching these it also gave us ideas to help our music video. One of the most influential videos was ... In this video they used lighting at the beginning to the beat of the music to help reveal the character. This looked really effective and is something we can definitely consider as an opening for our video. Another element we noticed from watching the music videos is that point of view shots worked quite effectively. This could also be easily connected to our video as we can show the older and younger PCD point of view.






Information taken from:
ASFF website
Beggars group wiki

Younger Transformation

For our music video we hope to cast younger girls to play the younger version of the PCD. However, another option we are considering is making the older cast look younger. By doing this it increases verisimilitude as they will actually look like their younger selves and be more recognisable and make the narrative more clear.

pigtails and braces

To do this we would make the cast wear minimal or no make up and style their hair in an immature way such as plaits or pigtails. They will be wearing younger clothing also that is suited to the time era that they would have been younger in, e.g, 90s or early 2000s.

minimal make up

We could also buy clip in braces and make the younger ones wear glasses and other things that signify a teenage audience. This also helps connect to the tween audience as they may might be dealing with these kind of things yet it shows them that in time they will eventually grow up to be glamorous like the older PCD.





Amazon link to fake braces
Another link

Make-Up

For the older set of PCD in the video we want them to have dramatic eye make up. This is seen throughout girl group examples such as The Saturdays, Little Mix and The Pussycat Dolls.

The Saturdays

This is done not only in music videos but whenever the groups are in public or advertised. This is shown in the picture to the left of Mollie from the Saturdays on a magazine cover.

Make-up is done like this to make the girls look more glamorous so they appeal to men (male gaze theory) and also so younger girls aspire to be like that as they look fashionable. These are both audiences we want to target and by doing our casts make up similar we aim to do this.

PCD

Little Mix 

The make up looks tend to be very unnatural and smoky looking. In our music video this will work especially well as it will create more of a contrast between the older PCD and the younger more innocent version of themselves when they will wear little to no make up.

practice example

At first we questioned how easy it would be to do this dramatic make up and make it look professional and effective. However, after doing research online we found that there are YouTube channels dedicated to tutorials of celebrity inspired looks and how to look like these glamorous people. These are easy step by step tutorials and after following these we discovered it is quite easy to achieve these looks.

Here is a practice example I did of the dramatic make up on a volunteer friend. It wasn't time consuming and I already had the make up and equipment needed meaning that the make up won't effect or increase our budget for the music video.

practice

practice

Locations

Earlier in the week, the group got together to find possible locations that we think would work effectively in the video. All the footage is from locations in the local area, however we do plan to also get some footage from slightly further away. The locations shown are a train station, urban street, car park, park and charity shop. The footage is shaky, but this is just a quick video made to give an idea of the kind of things we are looking for.

Set Up Ideas

We brainstormed a list of set-ups and ideas. We came up with more than we plan to use and we will film a lot of them and see which work most effectively.

1. Bedroom
2. Bathroom
3. Garden
4. Park
5. Street
6. Car park 
7. Shops (Charity Shop)
8. Milkshake bar
9. Hairdressers
10. Dance Studio 
11. Performance
12. Red Carpet 
13. Limo
14. Concert
15. Stage
16. Classroom
17. Recording studio
18. Club
19. Hotel
20. Festival
21. Train Station
22. Bus Station

Audience Research

MEDIA PROFILE- PUSSYCAT DOLLS

Websites:

Wiki search for pussycat dolls

The Pussycat dolls have appeared on many Websites They have appeared on Wikapedia telling us general information about the pussy cat dolls .This is the website with the most views for the pussy cat dolls as it probably contains the most information. There however are other websites containing information such asStarPulse containing info on the bands latest news, twitter feeds and myspace.They have also appeared on promoting websites such as contact music this also contains biographies and background info on most bands widely. As well as these sites the pussycat dolls also appear in the news online such as the Express,scottish daily record and the daily mail. This does show our secondary audience due to the daily mail being aimed at a slightly older audience than Tweens.

Radio:

The pussycat dolls have been played and interviewed on many radio stations they are most commonly played on Last Fm.They have also been interviewed on radio 1 before they broke up last year. Another popular station they are played on is tune in. As they have however all gone there seperate ways now . At the time they were interviewed on several radio stations such as these now there is single interviews of the artists themselves.

Tv and Film:

X Factor performance

They have produced there own reality tv show calledgirlicious released in 2008. This was an american tv show before the girls became famous in Britain. This however was not a success and they only produced one series. They also produced Search for the next doll released in 2007. This also wasnt released in Britain however was popular in US. This however did restrict there audience. They also made a series of online shows produced by kim kardashian. They also have performed on tv shows such as loose women, this morning, Jonathon ross dancing on ice and x factor.

Jai Ho

As well as producing reality tv they also did star in films . They are most popular in englan for starring in jai ho at the end of slumdog millionaire. They produced the dance and song to choreograph at the end of the film due to Nicholes close relationship and her background with india. They also made a documentry called thepussycat dolls . They have also produced short films for openings at there concerts as well as there music videos.

Magazines and the paper:

They have featured in many magazines from last year and years before due to the sudden break through and popularity in Britain. They have featured in papers such as the daily mail, the sun , the mirror , the express and the independent. This a variety of audience however they all do cover different topics from the group such as the news , the big break up. The sun however focuses on the band being new and male gaze. they also have a lot of bad gossip on the break up. They have also featured on a lot of magazine covers such as Blender, OK!, FHM and Pride magazine. These all represent different audience however mainly the male audience due to fhm and blender being mens magazines this shows another audience to consider.

Coverage recently:

I asked peers at home at school and online if they thought there had been any coverage on the pussy cat dolls. My over all outcome was that today it mostly seems to be about nicole rather than the other girls they have there own careers now but not as big as hers. They however said around this time last year they remember the girls breaking up and releasing there final album they also said they remember the break up and everything that went with that within news papers and tv.

Covers of there songs:

They have had many covers of the songs such as being sung on x factor and many talents show by other famous people. There songs have been covered on x factor by girl bands and individual artists this does appear to a wider scope of people such as familys and younger children. They also have covers done world wide such as on youtube . There music is very mainstream and is today widley recognised.